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States. >> couldnt have that have been done at doj, mary? havent most of the people involved in the investigative steps in the mar-a-lago probe been career prosecutors? >> most of the people involved day-to-day certainly have been. and those people i expect will continue. people like jay bratt, the head of the counterintelligence section, these are career prosecutors who have been with the department for decades. but others were involved, too. in fact, the attorney general himself, you may recal...

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Intelligence correspondent enter, ken delanian. she is also an nbc legal analyst. what more did trumps lawsuit tell us about the search and what led up to it? >> good morning, jose. trump laid out a number of facts that paint a picture of an extensive effort by the justice department to try to get these documents back before they took the step of on taning a search warrant. the trump team acknowledges they got a subpoena in may and the head of the counterintelligence section went down to mar-a-l...

We should point out republicans are still standing by trump. they are still vowing to pursue oversight and investigations into the department of justice if they win back the majority, but it is clear they are starting to calibrate their response after "the washington post" report donald trump might be in possession of highly sensitive documents. >> david laughlin led the u.s. justice departments counterintelligence section until 2018. he oversaw investigations into both hillary clintons and form...

Explains why we have these lawyers from the national security division including from the counterintelligence section that have been overseeing this. because there is this deep concern given the history of mar-a-lago and the lack of protocols for security there, that someone who, you know, a foreign adversary could somehow get to some of these things because of where they were being stored. >> i want to get to more on the substance in a second. but the lawyers have until 3:00 today. the justice ...

Supporting documentation from the fbi search if youre someones attorney? >> first of all, its never done in federal practice. defense attorneys dont even see these warrants until its almost the time of trial. and they make a motion to suppress. even then they may not get all of the supporting materials. prosecutors fight to keep these things out of the hands of the defense because you might have an informant whos working under cover, whos supplied some of the information. it could be an employee...